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There is only 2 options, Life formed because of God, or by random chance from non-living matter

That we have a universe that we may never know why it exists or what purpose it has, and that after billions and billions of years non-living matter hit other non-living matter just right and by chance formed biological matter, which would then by random chance form even more complex biological matter, and know how to adapt and evolve to the environment by chance, and that by chance it just so happened to happen on a planet where the conditions would be perfect for life out of trillions of galaxies and solar systems. and that every living thing is an accident and the universe doesn't know anything or that living things exist, and by chance a living animal evolved to be intelligent enough to understand the universe, and the physics of it.

Or we have a creator and life has purpose.

So we have two options on what to believe.

If there was no creator than how were we created? how can there be any creation without a creator?

If a tornado went through a junkyard, what are the chances it assembles a fully functional plane? what if it went through the junkyard a trillion times? This is the analogy I am going to use when people say we were created by complete randomness.
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Prayer Request — asking for wisdom, strength, and provision

Hello everyone,

I’m reaching out humbly to ask for prayer during a very difficult season in my life. I’m continuing to work, take responsibility, and move forward the best I can, but I’m feeling stretched emotionally and spiritually and could truly use prayer for strength, wisdom, peace, and provision.

I’m trying to stay grounded in faith and trust God’s direction even when the path ahead feels uncertain. Please pray that I remain steady, make wise decisions, and continue to walk forward with integrity and hope.

Thank you to anyone willing to lift me up in prayer. If anyone would like additional context, I’m happy to share privately.

God bless.

Attempting to Reset

After a few years of great anxiety, recurring bouts of depression and spiritual dryness, I am trying to reset my heart and mind. I'm beginning tonight by reading through some of the Scriptures that are listed in the About and Purpose section at the top of the discussions in this forum each day and writing down my thoughts and feelings about them. The readings should last 5-6 days. The reason I don't specifically know which day it will end is because the list doesn't have the same number of Scriptures for each item listed, so I haven't decided how I will divide them out.

After that I'm going to do a workbook that is for new Christians to teach them how to live out a Christian life and grow in Christ called Survival Kit. This workbook is decades old, and a copy of it was given to me by my pastor when I was 13 right after my baptism. It was very beneficial to me then, and I repeated it when Iwas in my 20s. I expect for it to be beneficial again. It is the basics and meant to be the beginning of a life of learning and growing.

I feel my spirit and my mind needs to be renewed and my connection to the Lord needs to be focused on. During this time I plan to purge some things out of my life. Some are problematic, and some are just time wasters with no benefit. I'm also going through health changes after some new diagnosis's this year, and I'm having to adjust my lifestyle and expectations of myself physically.

I am concerned that it is too many changes at once, but I also feel like if I don't dive in, then it won't be helpful enough and I might not take it as seriously. I feel like I need to enter a period of spiritual discipline and training. I feel very alone in it because no one I know in my life is doing anything similar.

Hello

Hey guys, I came back to this forum to try it out again. I registered here years ago, but I totally forgot my username, email, and password. And I don’t have great memories of this place because, at the time, I was desperate for help. My first post got my account banned instantly because the warning title and content suggested it might negatively affect others, which is against the rules. But, people outside this forum mentioned that CF isn't that bad, so I’m giving it another shot after all these years. I do wonder if I'll be banned again after this post. The experience was honestly traumatic.

Words you say to others can have an effect be careful.

Words people speak directed at others can have horrible consequences,
be careful what you say, and stay silent if you are not going to speak to other people something blessed.

What i am saying is not new, a lot of people involved in deliverance could say the same.

Lets say someone sees a person a bit distracted, and this someone says: "You have memory problems" in their interior to them.
If that word enters them, it could cause memory problems.
Let's say you see someone wearing sandals in a business and you assume something and say: "you have problems on your feet"
that person could start to have pain in the feet nails, or those wounds sometimes appear on the bottom of the feet etc.

You know how witches curses people? with words, charged with satanic spirit, but you don't have to be a witch to do horrible damage to others this way.

People know if someone did something to them, they are not conscious about it, they don't realize, but they act anyway in this knowledge, this is a reason
why some many people can't get along in churches families etc, because of the words they have spoken to each other.

Be careful who you open to, be careful to who you put as spiritual authority over you, words spoken in a position of authority over others have more effect.

The bible says what you sow you will harvest, if you cursed people before, watch out because it can come back several times worse.

What Christianity is About!

Christians are open to the ways that God's power, goodness/love, and righteousness can be manifested throughout His Creation. This would include the diversity God has created through different nations' religions that genuinely support the love of Him. This would include the different Christian denominations like the Lutherans, Evangelicals, 7th day Adventists, etc. Since they hint at God supporting His Creation against various types of satanic deception in the future as well as the present in America. Faiths like Islam, and Catholicism, and Sikhism I would also include since they support the love of God to save individuals with other cultural histories so they can partake in the humbling of the flesh which works against satan's ideology of thinking that people have to be the same in order to be close to God or to survive His Judgement.

On the topic of Judgement, in order to be presentable to God during Judgement Day, Christians have to be able to humble our flesh (who we are on the earth) before Him so then He can add to it instead of taking away when the world is made anew by fire. So we fully believe in the ways God sustains us knowing that we are not responsible for our success in this present world or the new one. We also respect the things God made us for that He has given to us today to do His Will for our individual lives. (1 Corinthians 3) I know it can sound complicated when expressed in human words but it's very easy for humans to do and isn't burdensome. A simple way to start is let God take credit for everything that makes you unique.


With those previous things being said, Christians cannot be a part of the satanic deception that they can misrepresent God's Goodness/Love and Righteousness. It's an essential part of being Christian and one cannot be without representing His Power or we deny what Christ actually did by dying on the Cross, resurrecting from the grave, and ascending into the heavens. In other words, if you believe that God is the sustainer of your Life God will show others that this is true. Even if it may not physically look like what you think you should look like with God backing you, it will always show spiritually. This is what faith is; "the evidence of things unseen;" the proof of what God has given to you and is supporting you with. Jesus "died" so then faith would be more visible no matter how much humanity sins against God.

Is David right? Or am I?

David C. Pack asks; "Were the 10 Cs "Done away"? ... And nothing ever; on 2 Cor 3:7?


Jesus commands; "... If you will enter into life, keep the commandments." Matt 19:17.


How about Pauls; "Ministration of death "? Means; 10 Cs; DONE AWAY! Means Abolished.
David C. Pack isn't mentioning 2 Cor 3:7.


I personally only attend; what I personally declare as an exclusive kJB only church.
Keeping church genuine; not "counterfeit ".


As it also is; Adventists think our Lord Jesus is the final authority on law description and Sabbath command; ...
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: ...
And don't want to recognize, even at all that Paul is that final authority for law description and Sabbath command.


David said; "Millions believe is now null and void"? ... 2 Cor 3:7? No mention.


Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
DOES NOT MEAN THE 10 Cs.
2 Cor 3:7?
PRESUMING to Keeping the 10 Cs; means keeping ALL commandments associated with the 10 Cs?
Can a car be started on Sabbath?
Yes or NO!?
Exodus 35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day


David now mentions 2 Cor 4:4; ...
And nothing on 2 Cor 3:7; and going to Matt 5:17-18. Declaring Jesus as final authority; and not Paul, ... No mention of 2 Cor 3:7.
The biggest biblical issue; does happen to be on genuine vrs "counterfeit" bibles.


David; "Are all 10 Cs taught in the N.T.?"
What about the reiterations?
Law of Moses, vrs the law of "God"; isn't actually the issue.
No mention yet of N.T.; "reiterations"?
Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
David; "Does Paul's description here of the law, inspired by "God"; sound like it has been "done away"; ... That obedience to it is now obsolete?"
David does NOT mention ...
2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
2 Corinthians 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is ABOLISHED:
DAVID DOES NOT MENTION THIS!?
David asks now; "Can we now serve other gods; worship idols; or take "God's" name in vain?"
Will David mention Gal 6:2? Law of Christ?
Matt 15:19; does not mean consequences for not keeping Sabbath!
Of all sins ever listed; Sabbath breaking, is never listed; means no consequences for breaking Sabbath.


David mentions 1 John 5:3; and does not ever mention 2 Cor 3:7.


What about Col 2:16-17? No explanation on what that means?
And no mention of John 20:26?
Mark 2:28 means, Jesus can break Sabbath; of course with no sin.
Heb 13:8; does not mean Sabbath stands in the N.T.; ... With no mention of Col 2:16-17; 2 Cor 3:7.
It seems there is never any mention of any verses describing "Sunday".
David mentions Acts 17:2; ... Acts 18:4 is mentioned, and NOT Acts 18:6?
Why hasn't David mentioned any "Sunday" describing scripture?
And David does not mention 2 Cor 3:7?
And it seems David refuses to mention 2 Cor 3:7 ... Trying to tell us; what HE wants you to "believe", that Sabbath does stand; and there is actually nothing "Sunday" in God's word.
David says; "People reject "God's" law."
And no mention of Gal 6:2; The law of Christ.
"There is no hint; that God ever did away with; suspended; or replaced his law; with love; or any other religious sounding phrase."
No mention of 2 Cor 3:7, Gal 6:2; no mention of reiterations.
"God's law existed long before Moses; from the time of creation."
And no mention of Neh 9:13-14. Proving nobody in Genesis; kept Sabbath.
"All 10 Cs, were taught throughout the N.T.; and are in effect today."
And no mention of Col 2:16-17; 2 Cor 3:7; or reiterations.
Murder; adultery; stealing; lying, are covered in the law of Christ; Gal 6:2; ...
And are not the hot topic; ...
Sabbath is that hot topic.
Psalms 19:7-8-9 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
DOES NOT PROVE WE NEED TO KEEP SABBATH.
David; "Certainly nothing here to throw away."
WHAT ABOUT 2 CORINTHIANS 3:7?
The "Ministration of death"; means the 10cs.
Christ's sacrifice; did away with Sabbath; much less the 10 Cs.
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Daniel 2

Most Christians are unwilling to change their mind believing they already have these things figured out.

The sequence of kingdoms I believe in Daniel 2 predates the one that claims Rome is the legs of iron. It goes back to the time of Josephus which is...
Babylon = Head of Gold
Mede's = Arms of silver
Persian' s = Thighs of brass
Greeks = Legs of iron.

The reformers were convinced that since Rome crucified Christ, persecuted 1st century Christians, destroyed Jerusalem and Herod's Temple, they believed Rome would also emerge as the end-time beast of Daniel and Revelation. I believe the reformers were wrong about this and Daniel 2 and 7 as well.

We agree that in Daniel 2, Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon is the head of gold. After Babylon...

Daniel 2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

Most people believe that Medo-Persia form the arms of silver or the 'inferior kingdom.'

The only thing said about the second kingdom is that it's inferior to Babylon. Was Medo-Persia the inferior kingdom? Absolutely not! The Median Empire was not only much smaller, it was also short lived enduring only 6 years. Some interpreters claim this is a cultural or religious inferiority. The word 'inferior' proves otherwise.

The word INFERIOR...
The word inferior is the word "arah" which means earth, world, and ground.

It's only translated EARTH in Daniel 2, but it is coupled with the word BELOW which in the NT - inferior means 'TO MAKE LESS'. Gesenius says, "the ground, and adverb below" - inferior. The interlinear uses the word, 'earthward'. In my view inferior means 'less land' and that rules out the Medo-Persian empire as the second empire since it was 3-4 times the size of Babylon. It wasn't 'land inferior' to Babylon. The Median Empire was not only short-lived but was also much smaller making it the inferior kingdom.

In both Greek and Hebrew inferior means,
to make less,
inferior,
to fall short,
below

Daniel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah's prophecies ascribe the conquest and destruction of Babylon to the Darius and the Medes, NOT Cyrus the Persian.

Daniel 5:31
"And Darius the Median took the kingdom, (Babylon) being about threescore and two years old."

Isaiah 13:17
"Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, i.e. (Babylon)

Jeremiah 51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
After reading the above, people usually quote Daniel 8:19-21

"And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end [shall be]. The ram which thou sawest having [two] horns [are] the kings of Media and Persia."

Daniel 8:3 shows that the Ram emerged from two kingdoms. The smaller horn is the INFERIOR kingdom of the Medes which rose first, and the larger horn that rose afterwards, the kingdom of the Persians. Then the two eventually merged into ONE kingdom - the Ram.

I was by the river of Ulai. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had [two] horns: and the [two] horns [were] high; but one [was] higher than the other, and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither [was there any] that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will and became great.

Secularist and many Protestants believe Cyrus the Persian conquered Babylon, but scriptures say that Darius the Mede invaded and conquered Babylon.
The reason for this is that there's very little secular history on Darius. If they were to agree with the bible instead of secular history where Daniel 5:31 says that Darius the Mede took Babylon at age 62. That would blow the revived Roman empire theory right out of the water! Something they've been teaching for centuries.\par

The Medes were superior warriors compared to the Persians, but the Persians were better engineers and nation builders than the Medes. They had their own languages and 'kingdoms'. Cyrus married Darius' sister. (some say his cousin, some say his daughter) I believe Cyrus married his sister. The two were confederate, but Darius is the one who first went into battle as it was the custom of that day for the elder to be first in battle. The Median kingdom occupied Babylon for only 6 years (there are several scriptures that prove this) before the Persians under Cyrus had what I would call a family coup, where only about 100 people died to take control over the kingdom.

Daniel 6:1 "It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;"

Daniel 9:1 "In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;"

Zec. 7:1 "And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;

Ezra 6:15 "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king."

Then, after the coup, they combined their efforts under Cyrus which became the 'Ram.' Darius was then placed as a vassal over the northern province of the kingdom and Cyrus the southern part.

The Legs of Iron

Since I understand the Medes as the 'arms of silver' and the Persians the 'thighs of bronze', the fourth kingdom symbolized by the 'legs of iron' CANNOT be ROME but Greece. Its end-time offspring, "the toes mingled with iron and clay" come from the Grecian Empire which is in accord with Daniel 8's little horn which is said to come from the realm of GRECIA, and Daniel 11:2. That Empire as well as the others depicted in the statue, didn't cover Rome or Europe as they were Mid-East Empires. Rome is excluded as the fourth kingdom of Daniel 2 and cannot be the origin of either the two or ten horned beast, or Daniel 7's 'fearful and dreadful' fourth beast. (anti-Christ and false prophet, etc. ???).

The toes MINGLED with Iron and Clay.
The word MIXED OR MINGLED used to describe the toes mingled with iron and clay is the Aramaic word "arab." It means mixed and denotes an Arabian or Arabia. (Gesenius) This word is not associated with ROME, ITALY.

Daniel 2:43
"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."

Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar much more about the iron and clay than any of the other kingdoms because it depicts the end-time kingdom that the Lord returns to destroy. The word MIXED actually describes the people, the origin, and the geographical area from which the end-time anti-Christ would arise. The description of the iron and clay describes the Arab/Muslim world far better than Rome or the EU.

"And [as] the toes of the feet [were] part of iron, and part of clay, [so] the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken."

"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."

"And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise."

Daniel says the kingdom would, 'subdue all things, be divided and not cleave to one another, partly strong and partly broken, and mixed (arab/intermarried) with the seed of men. Islam has subdued nearly every religion in the Middle East.

That's not true of Rome or the EU but is certainly true of Arab Islamic tribes and clans scattered across the countries of the Middle East. Rome, Italy, and the EU, have strong alliances and are all a peaceful coalition of nations. They're more unified than the Arab World which isn't united at all! Arab/Muslim countries throughout the Mid-East and Northern Africa have always been divided.

There are about 250 different tribes and clans in Northern Africa alone. Iraq has several hundred. They are proud of their heritage and can be your best friend and worse enemy at the same time. Iron and clay, divided, partly strong and partly broken, not cleaved to one another, "mixed with the seed of men," perfectly describes the Arabs. Both iron and clay are brittle, and they don't mix. I believe the iron and clay represents the Shia and Sunni sects of Islam. The two horned beast of Revelation 13 also represents the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam.

Not only do Arab/Islamic countries have fragile alliances they have mixed, crossed, and broken up into hundreds of different tribes and clans scattered across the entire Mid-East including Northern Africa.

Their history, the scriptures, Ishmael as their father, and today's world proves they are divided, uncleaved, intermarried, i.e., "mixed with the seed of men." The Arab world has never "cleaved to one another." The NLT actually uses the word intermarried instead of mixed. The word Arab is today a variation of the word 'crossed.'

Every verse of end time bible prophecy points to Arab, Persian, and Islamic countries. NOT ONE VERSE points to Rome. Psalm 83 - All Arabic, Persian, and Islamic. Ezekiel 38-39??? All Islamic today.
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Biblical evidence Islam is the Beast

Biblical evidence Islam is the beast
The single most relevant issue to address is, "what religion will the false prophet come from?" The biblical evidence all points to Islam. Here's a little evidence for you to consider about Islam and not all of it!
Captive silly women," have ISLAM written all over it.

2 Timothy 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

The word 'silly' is better interpreted 'little.' Little in the sense of being insignificant. After all, Mid-East Muslims value their cattle more than their women and consider them as 'farmland'. Muslim women have been held captive to the oppressive religion of Islam since its inception.

Sura 33:50-51 "O prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee this only for thee, and not for believers [at large]; we know what we have appointed for them as to their wives and the captives whom their right hand possess; in order that there should be no difficulty for thee. And God is oft-forgiving, most merciful.

The rest of 2 Tim. 3 has Islam written all over it, not to mention ISIS runs the largest prostitution ring in the world.
The number of the verses in the Koran according to the scholars:
Ibn-i Abbas (ra): 6616,
Nafi (ra): 6217,
Shayba (ra): 6214,
Scholars of Egypt (ra): 6226,
Zamahshari (ra)
(the genius Eloquence Scholar of the Arabic language and literature);
6666.
Bediuzzaman, mujaddid (the reformer) of the13.century, also has the opinion of
6666 verses.

The right hand and forehead happen to have religious significance in Islam. But most people wouldn't know that, they're too busy looking at the pope's funny hat.

A Muslim's method of worship and goal of world domination through jihad and demographics is also perfectly describe in ONE VERSE in Habakkuk.
Habakkuk says God would raise up the Babylonians in the last days. Not the Romans.
"They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand."
They shall come all for violence: (Islamic terrorism)
their faces shall sup up as the east wind, (Muslim method of worship)

"The east wind is always associated with evil destructive wind." E. Swedenborg (1688-1772) said, "That wind, and especially the east wind, signifies nothing else than the dispersion of falsities and evils.

and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. (World domination)Islam has captivated about 1.7 billion followers.

There's an anti-Christ monument that 'sits upon' God's Holy Place called the Dome of the Rock. Around the octagonal structure of the Dome of the Rock is a long classical Arabic inscription that says that God has no begotten son, thus denying that Jesus is the Son of God.

They say,
There is no God but Allah.
God has no son; He begetteth not.
God taketh not unto Himself a son.
God has no associate.
Muhammad is the messenger of God.
Allah will preside on Judgment Day.

"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."

Ever see the images that developed over time in the marble of the entrance to the Dome? DEMONS!

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We believe that Jesus Christ takes away our sins and is the Rock of Ages and the chief cornerstone of the Churches foundation. Did you know that Muslim's bow toward a black rock in Mecca 5 times a day and believe it takes away their sins. This black rock is the 'cornerstone' of the Kaaba, and notice the two horns symbolic of the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam.

We put crosses on top of Churches. Islam has a star and crescent moon that looks like two horns. Allah is also known as a moon god in Arabic mythology.

Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, (Shia and Sunni sects of Islam) and he spake as a dragon. (Morning star crescent moon) The two horned beast is symbolic of Islam and called Babylon the Great.

We believe Jesus is the "prophet lie unto Moses." Muslims believe that would be the false prophet Muhammad.

The name Lucifer in Hebrew is Heylel. It comes from the word 'halal' and it means, "The Morning Star."

1966 heylel hay-lale' from 1984 (in the sense of brightness); the morning-star:\endash Lucifer.

Hilal in Arabis means
Web definition
Hil?l (????) is an Arabic word that means "crescent" or "new moon." It's an Islamic symbol!

Heylal, Halal ,and Hilal means\ Lucifer\ aka Satan\ aka the devil\ and in Christian literature actually means The Morning Star and Crescent Moon

The locust of Rev. 9 has long been associated with Muslims. That's where suicide bombers are found.

Revelation 9:16-17 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

Revelation 9 has long been associated with the Arabs and Muslims for several reasons. Locust are figurative of the Arabs in the Old Testament. Both the scorpions and locust have the Mid-East as their natural habitat, especially in Arabia. In Arabic the word "Arab" and "locust" sound similar.

"That Great City" of Revelation 17 is East Jerusalem. The harlot, whose cup is filled with the Islamic abominations of the earth, and bent on "domination by abomination," sits upon or "OCCUPIES" the Temple Mount. This 7 headed ten horned beast represents the Dome area being occupied by Islam and the Headquarters of an Islamic Caliphate, turning East Jerusalem into a figurative harlot. That area will authenticate the man of sin and false prophet.

"That Great City" of Revelation 18 is Mecca and the oil rich Arab world, it's palaces and Shrines/ mosque. etc.. If you read Revelation 18, you'll see that Islam and the Arab world is written all over it. Verse 13 may even imply Islam will be banned by countries who previously traded with the region. Mecca may be prophesied for destruction.
Revelation 10 all about the Koran.

Revelation 11 all about the Temple Mount area which is occupied by Islam, and the two witnesses preaching to Muslim's to "get out of Islam."
Revelation 15 is about people, esp. Muslims, who got out of Islam, and the seven last plagues. The sea of glass is figurative of Muslim's who have seen the light who now see and understood the truth. The vials are God's vengeance upon Islam and His last attempt to get Muslims out of Islam.

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

Beheading is an Islamic tradition and an atrocity committed by the beast mentioned in Revelation 20:4.

ISIS/ISIL is the Leviathan of Isaiah 24 and Job 41. This is what it says about ISIL, and this is what we know about ISIL.

Job 41:25 says about Leviathan

"When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves".

Why are the mighty afraid?
The mighty are afraid because jihadist hide among the general population. They aren't coming at you with brigades of people and equipment. They are spread across the earth and mixed in the general population. Jihadist of all kinds believe it's God's will for them to participate in jihad. Islam teaches that if a man does not participate in jihad, he is liable to lose his reward in paradise and is a hypocrite.
Job 41:25 says about Leviathan

"When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves".

"by reason of breakings they purify themselves."

The second part of verse 25 is really strange and perfectly describes a Muslim's 'struggle' in jihad

The word no doubt implies terrorism. It means to break and ruin, and comes from a word meaning "to break, wreck, and to rend violence."

Jihad is the Arabic word for "struggle" or "effort." In the context of the Holy Qur'an, jihad is a struggle or effort to strive "in the path of God" (22:78). Scholar James Turner Johnson says it this way: "the concept of jihad fundamentally denotes striving or effort expended by the individual Muslim to walk in the path of God" (Johnson 19; Feldman 232-233) Jihad is the effort to purify oneself from within, to purify oneself of selfish appetites\endash the intention behind the action is important to the action itself. If this is the root meaning of jihad, when and how did it come to mean "holy war" or a "war to kill the infidels"? To answer that, we need to look at jihad in the Qur'an and the term's historical development."

Hospitals Prepare France for WW3


You have to subscribe to see the article now but the article was pretty much about how a couple of months ago the Church Doctors (the people who help administer healing to the church) in France were preparing for an upcoming increase of spiritual warfare that Hal Turner calls "World War 3." He said it would start in March.
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Minnesota fraud scandal exposes the real crisis facing the West

The Minnesota Somali fraud scandal somehow manages to get worse and worse as the legacy media mostly ignore the issue and Democrats shrug. At the heart of this scandal lies the larger crisis facing the West.

On Friday, independent journalist Nick Shirley released a 42-minute YouTube documentary detailing his efforts to uncover what exactly is going on in Minnesota and how a ring of mostly Somali scammers squelched billions of dollars from taxpayers under the noses of Gov. Tim Walz and state authorities.

Vice President JD Vance praised the video on X and wrote that Shirley did more important journalism than all the recent Pulitzer Prize winners.

The video is certainly worth watching. Among the big findings uncovered is a series of so-called daycare centers and other facilities being funded in the state that have no children in them at all.

In one of the most remarkable scenes, Shirley arrived at a location called the “Quality Learing Center.” Yes, “Learing,” which was obviously misspelled. The center had been licensed for 99 children, but none were there. In front of the building, a woman kept shouting, “Don’t open up, ICE.” Shirley informed her that he was merely a journalist, but she ignored him and kept shouting.

Amazing.

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Charlie Kirk murder suspect seeks independent prosecutor; defense alleges 'conflict of interest'

Tyler Robinson’s defense team is challenging the Utah County Attorney’s office's involvement in the criminal case against Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer because a relative of one of the prosecutors was present at the event where the conservative activist was assassinated.

Robinson's defense team filed a motion last month for the court to appoint an independent prosecutor with the 4th District Court, alleging that a lead prosecuting attorney received text messages from a close relative present at the September shooting and then shared those messages with other prosecutors in the case, reports the Utah-based Gephardt Daily.

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Cat Surgery Complications

12 days ago my Cat Koda underwent double eye surgery. Last night we had to rush him to the ER because 1 pupil was a ton larger than the other. After ruling out main issues like Leukemia and Glaucoma, the vet sided with thinking this was infection related. If it doesn't clear, I have to go to a main hospital run by the University of Florida for an MRI or scan to check for brain bleeds or tumors. I'm asking for prayers that this clears up and doesn't get worse.

Thank you all and God Bless. I hope you all have a great new year.

Are people really using AI to post things on here?

Sorry if I sound shocked or even surprised, but I recently found out that some members on here are using AI to help them post stuff.

I have never used AI in my life and never will for that matter. Everything you see from me I type it all out by hand myself! I guess I am just old school that way.

I just have my personal PC here and my keyboard. That's all. No programs of any kind. No AI.

I guess I am a little bit surprised. I have never even used ChatGPT before. But I guess I shouldn't really be that amazed, because AI is everywhere these days...but it makes people lazy...

Lake Powell drops 36 feet in one year as water crisis deepens; 50 more and it can no longer generate electricity

Lake Powell has dropped 36 feet in just the past year, leaving the massive reservoir at only 27% of its capacity and raising concerns about the ability of the Glen Canyon Dam to generate power.

The dramatic water loss has transformed the landscape around Lake Powell. Satellite images from the past 11 years show islands appearing where none existed before, and the Wahweap Marina has been forced to move steadily eastward to stay accessible.

As of Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Lake Powell's level at 3,540 feet, representing just 27% of the reservoir's total capacity.

The situation becomes critical at 3,490 feet, when Lake Powell loses its ability to generate hydroelectric power.
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Hierarchy in truths censored

Let me please propose what i guess is a non exhaustive list of truth censored, whatever form the censoring takes, that is :
1. through obstructing ears, disbelieving, or brushing truth under carpets, like some dust ;
2. through displaying worldly, spectacular and attractive futilities, that distract listeners' attention from truths that really matters
3. through lying, for instance, falsely testifying, denying, etc..,
4. through killing the truth witness, etc..

From the less politically correct to the more worldly
Here is my list :
- The truth Jesus replied Pilate he's come to testify of (1)
- This truth Jesus being Son of God, turned into blasphemy (1, 3, 4)
- The truths in the inside of the Bible that commonly fall in oblivion on dusty bookshelves. (1)

- The truths in detective novels, sometimes no longer fashionable, from lack of interest (1)
- The truths when judging judicial cases ; sometimes, negociations are decisive, whereas the final decision should stem from pure truth

If you want to comment, please, do proceed.
(It looks like my taste for truth seeking is leading me towards the study of the resistance it encounters)

ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are planning to spend $100 million over a one-year period to recruit gun rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted advertising campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy it said was critical to hiring thousands of new deportation officers nationwide, according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post.


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His 'Kingdom Come'

Happy New Year! I thought to start a thread of hope. That the Gospel's furtherance will surely escape any label they wish to pin one on, haha! If that were the objective, I would simply maintain the status-quo and wish you Happy New Year from the 'Kingdom Stay Put' portion, oftentimes used as: "Occupy till I come". But isn't it true in everything we do, we give thanks in hopes of bearing fruit.

"Occupy"(Luke 19:13), , not merely to "possess," as it often does in our language,
but to "improve," to employ "in business," for the purpose
of increasing it or of making "profit" on it." - Barnes

That 'His kingdom is not of this world, so we have no place to increase' night is spent. "Thy kingdom come" (Matthew 6:10) does not need the kingdom of this world! If God wills, we will see it's increase!

Somali daycare in Minnesota broken into, key documents stolen in overnight burglary

'In addition to vandalism, the suspect or suspects took documents related to employees and children at the daycare, Mohamed said.
He cited a viral video posted online by independent journalist Nick Shirley, who visited nearly a dozen daycare facilities while seeking evidence of fraud, for the daycare being targeted."
No records, no proof of violations of the law.
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Walk By Faith, Not By Sight

“Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight— we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:6-10 NASB1995)

Do you ever feel this way? It is not that we have a death wish, but living in these earthly bodies, and facing the kinds of things we are being faced with in this world of ours, may lead us sometimes to long to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord in the place in which he dwells in heaven. Now God does, by his Spirit, live within the hearts of us who have put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior, so we who are of genuine faith in Jesus are not absent from the Lord, only physically.

But sometimes life is hard, isn’t it? We face trials and tribulations of many kinds. And as we age our bodies don’t work as well as they did when we were much younger. Our minds may not work as well as they did when we were younger, too, and we may become forgetful. And our minds may go blank sometimes, and we won’t be able to remember people’s names or even our own mailing addresses or phone numbers or whatever. And I can definitely identify in that area, but I am glad this is just sometimes.

And then there is all the chaos and angst and drama and hatred and violence and deception going on in the world, and in our nations, and in some of what are called “churches,” but which are just businesses being marketed to the world in order to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. Lies and liars abound! Fakery is everywhere. In our digital age anything can be faked, photoshopped, altered, or AI generated to look real when it is not real at all. So we have to be very biblically discerning people.

So, we have to have our focus on the Lord and not on the things of this sinful world. Our minds must be set on living holy lives, pleasing to God, and not on living for sinful and sensual pleasures. And we must be those who walk by faith, and not by sight, for our trust cannot be in other humans or in reliance on other people or jobs or financial income to get us through every day. All those things could go away in a flash. And we could be left with nothing of this world. So our trust has to be in the Lord and in his word.

And we need to be people of courage even when all may look hopeless, or when we get bad news, or when we are being faced with difficult and even sometimes possibly life altering decisions. For we are to make it our ambition and purpose to live holy lives, pleasing to God, and not for ourselves and for our own self-pleasure. And this is not saying we cannot enjoy life, but that our lives must be lived for the Lord and not for our own selfish and sinful desires. We can enjoy in life what is not against God.

For, we must ALL appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to his commands, according to the Scriptures, we will not have eternal life with God. But if God and his word are what we obey, and if by the Spirit we are putting sin to death, then we will live. For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief resulting in death, not life.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger


Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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Walk By Faith, Not By Sight
An Original Work / January 1, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If Anyone is In Christ

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-21 NASB1995)

It is a wonderful thing to be “in Christ.” There is no better life than this to have put our trust in Jesus Christ to be our Lord (Owner-Master) and our Savior (deliverer from our bondage to sin). Our beautiful Savior, our wonderful Lord set us free from our slavery to sin, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in him, and now he empowers us to live holy and godly lives, for his praise, in walks of obedience to his commands, in holy living. All of this is by the grace of God, as we cooperate fully with his work of grace.

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

For, to be reconciled to God, by his grace, means that we change, i.e. we exchange our old lives of living in sin and for self for our new lives in Christ Jesus to be lived for his glory and for his purposes, in walks of surrender to his will, in obedience to his commands. In other words, by the grace of God, in the power of God at work within us, we turn from darkness (sin) to light (Jesus Christ, righteousness), and we turn from the control of Satan over our lives to now giving control of our lives over to God (see Acts 26:18).

For Jesus Christ, in his death on that cross, took our sins upon himself, and he became sin for us. So when he died our sins died with him in order that, by God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus, we will now die to sin and be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and as servants of righteousness in holy living. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, according to the Scriptures, we will not inherit eternal life with God even if we say we believe.

And this is why Paul used the term “IF” anyone is in Christ, because not everyone is in Christ who makes a claim to be in Christ. For we are not “in Christ” by lip service only. And this is why he begged the Corinthians to be reconciled to God, i.e. to have that change of heart and mind, by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which results in that change of behavior via death to sin and living to God and to his righteousness, in the power of God at work within us who are of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus. Faith is change.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Fit for Service

An Original Work / October 5, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love


Holy Spirit, come within us.
Cleanse our hearts,
and from sin free us.
Make us holy vessels fit
for service to the King.
Fill us with Your love and power.
Anoint us within this hour
To be living witnesses
For Jesus Christ, our King.
Our praise to Him bring.

Father God, our heart’s desire,
Come and speak to us in power.
Revive our hearts to obey You;
Live for You always.
May we love and serve You only,
Walking with You;
Not a phony.
May we always tell the truth,
And show integrity.
Your true servants be.

Jesus, Savior, sanctify us.
Purify our hearts within us;
Be transformed into Your likeness,
Holy unto You.
May we always listen to You
Speaking Your words
Now within us.
May we heed Your counsel to us;
Follow You today.
Do all that You say.

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If Anyone is In Christ
An Original Work / January 1, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Dispensationalist Only AND COL1:25 WHERE PAUL COMPLETES. HIS MISSION !!

# 1 WHERE OF /// HOS is a RELATIVE PRONOUN. in. the GENITIVE CASE in. the SIGNULAR

# 2 I /// EGO is a PERSONAL POSSESSETIVE PRONOUN. in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 3. AM MADE. /// GINOMAI. in. the AORIST TENSE. in. the MIDDLE VOICE in. the INDICATIVE MOOD , just means you better believe it

in. the SIGNULAR

# 4 A MINISTER. /// DIAKONOS. in. the NOMINATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 5 ACCORDING. TO ///. is a PREPOSTION

#6 THE /// HO in. the DEFINITE. ARTICLE. in. the ACCUSATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 7 DISPENSATION. /// OIKONOMI. means the LAW of the HOUSE. in. the ACCUSATIVE CASE in. the SIGNULAR

# 8. OF GOD ///. THEOS. in. the GENITIVE CASE. in. the SINGULAR

# 9. WHICH. ///. HO is a DEFINITE ARTICLE. in. the ACCUSATIVE CASE in. the SIGNULAR

# 10. IS GIVEN. ///. DIDOMI. in. the AORIST TENSE in. the PASSIVE VOICE. is a PARTICIPLE. CASE. in. the ACCUSATIVE CASE

in. the SINGULAR

# 11 TO ME ///. MOI is a PERSONAL POSSESSETIVE PRONOUN. in. the DATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 12. FOR. ///. EIS. is a PREPOSTION

# 13. TO FULFIL. ///. PIEROO. in. the AORIST TENSE in. the ACTIVE VOICE. means God is involved

# 14. THE /// HO is a DEFINITE ARTICLE. in. the ACCUSATIVE CASE in. the SIGNGULAR

# 15 WORD. /// LOGOS. in. the ACCUSATIVE CASE in. the SINGULAR

# 16. OF GOD /// THEOS. in. the GENITIVE CASE in. the SIGNULAR.

# A IT just means that the 14 epistles that Paul wrote are. complete. which includes HEBREWS

# B. Only Paul explains How to be saved by GRACE in. Rom 9:9 and 10.

# C And Eph 2:8.

# D And Paul is the ONLY ONE that explains why the LAW HAD TO GO in Heb 9:18

# E And ACTS explains why Israel was set aside in ACTS 25-28 and also in ISA 6:1-18

# F AND salvation is ONLY BY GRACE , PERIOD. !!

# G And to be in the FAITH ,all better read Rom 16 :25 and 26

# H And Paul never did water BAPTIZED NO ONE , PERIOD

# I AND Paul was the FIRST //. PROTOS SAVED BY GRACE. IN 1 TIM 1:16. AND IS THE PATTERN. for all to believe

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